It's this type of advertising that's the best recruiter for ad-blocking software. If you get in the face of people like online adverts have been doing for years, then it's not surprising that people will find the means to stop the overtly attention seeking ways of the advertisers. DS might well need the revenue from advertising, but the advertisers that supply these sorts of ads can also blight DS, too. Maybe if the advertisers were a bit more subtle with their adverts and computer safe, people could be persuaded to unblock those adverts. But in a society that's so "look at me!", that's not likely to catch on too soon. They're their own worst enemies.
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This. If ads were all discrete then people wouldn't be bothered by them, instead they are large and intrusive so they get blocked.
Personally I think TV advertisers seem to be cut from the same cloth of stupid as their online brethren. The approach of some TV ads seems to be to make them as loud as possible, as if that will somehow make people want their product more. Instead, in my experience anyway, it just leads people to either mute the sound or change channel. Really effective advertising that.
I have no idea how many - this is my first thread on the topic anyway - and no, I'm not a newbie, but this blanked out the whole screen and it's not anything I've seen before.
There's been loads of threads on this over the past couple of weeks and it's becoming boring.:yawn:
There's been loads of threads on this over the past couple of weeks and it's becoming boring.:yawn:
Enjoy the adverts then.
It's the intrusive ones though, I haven't posted since last weekend as it was doing my head in.
I know there are options, but as it's a free site, I can handle the ads just not the ones that stop us from viewing.
I know there are plenty of people that hope they (the ads) stay in the hope that I cease posting forever but I do think it needs sorting and mentioning occasionally.:o
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This. If ads were all discrete then people wouldn't be bothered by them, instead they are large and intrusive so they get blocked.
Personally I think TV advertisers seem to be cut from the same cloth of stupid as their online brethren. The approach of some TV ads seems to be to make them as loud as possible, as if that will somehow make people want their product more. Instead, in my experience anyway, it just leads people to either mute the sound or change channel. Really effective advertising that.
But the one I mentioned made my screen go completely black and disabled everything until I clicked the ad off - I've never seen that on DS before.
Is that the one with Clint Eastwood.
It's the intrusive ones though, I haven't posted since last weekend as it was doing my head in.
I know there are options, but as it's a free site, I can handle the ads just not the ones that stop us from viewing.
I know there are plenty of people that hope they (the ads) stay in the hope that I cease posting forever but I do think it needs sorting and mentioning occasionally.:o
Be bored then - no-one's forcing you to respond or read.
I see you hold grudges.